Book excerpt: Excerpt from Hardwood Record, Vol. 43: Chicago, April 17, 1917 The log and the stumps astride it in the picture are western red cedar. This species is closely related to the white cedar or arbor vitae of the northern states, but it attains much larger size. This species furnishes more shingles than any other tree in the world. The western cedar shingles, known in every market in the country, are its product. The action in the picture is furnished by 'the man with the saw, who is cutting bolts for shingles from the prostrate trunk. Though the log has lain on the ground much more than a thousand years, it is still sufficiently sound for shingles.' This constitutes one of the longest known records of timber preserved from decay, while exposed to the weather. There are longer records where the wood had been kept dry or submerged in water or buried in ice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.